Mwangi, Samuel Chege (author / University of South Carolina Columbia)
Format:
Research paper
Publication Date:
2002-08-07
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 124 Document Number: C16146
Notes:
5 p., Paper submitted to the International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication for the annual convention in Florida, August 7-10, 2002
Online ISSN: 1876-4525
Print ISSN: 1876-4517, Via online journal., Despite recent improvements in the national average, stunting levels in Afghanistan exceed 70% in some Provinces. Agriculture serves as the main source of livelihood for over half of the population and has the potential to be a strong driver of a reduction in under-nutrition. This article reports research conducted through interviews with stakeholders in agriculture and nutrition in the capital, Kabul, and four provinces of Afghanistan, to gain a better understanding of the institutional and political factors surrounding policy making and the nutrition-sensitivity of agriculture. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 46 stakeholders from central government and four provinces, including staff from international organizations, NGOs and universities. We found evidence of interdisciplinary communication at the central level and within Provinces, but little evidence of vertical coordination in policy formulation and implementation between the centre and Provinces. Policy formulation and decision making were largely sectoral, top-down, and poorly contextualised. The weaknesses identified in policy formulation, focus, knowledge management, and human and financial resources inhibit the orientation of national agricultural development strategies towards nutrition-sensitivity. Integrating agriculture and nutrition policies requires explicit leadership from the centre. However, effectiveness of a food-based approach to reducing nutrition insecurity will depend on decentralising policy ownership to the regions and provinces through stronger subnational governance. Security and humanitarian considerations point to the need to manage and integrate in a deliberate way the acute humanitarian care and long-term development needs, of which malnutrition is just one element.
International: International Program for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (INTERPAKS), Office of International Agriculture, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07285
Paul Hixson Collection. Locate this article in D07313 file, which contains full issues., Excerpted and adapted from a conference paper presented at the First International Tyndall School Symposium, Carlow, Ireland, September 7, 1994.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C37116
Notes:
See C37113 for original, Pages 312-333 in Kenneth B. Beesley, Hugh Millward, Brian Iilbery and Lisa Harrington (eds.), The new countryside: geographic perspectives on rural change. Brandon University (Rural Development Institute) and Saint Mary's University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. 490 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25575
Notes:
Pages 77-97 in Stuart Macdonald and Gary Madden (eds.), Telecommunications and socio-economic development. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 444 pages.
Dargan, Lorna (author) and Harris, Edmund (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Germany
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C36973
Notes:
Pages 77-97 in Maria Fonte and Apostolos G. Papadopoulos (eds.), Naming food after places: food relocalisation and knowledge dynamics in rural development. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., Surrey, England. 285 pages.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C17235
Notes:
Pages 127-161 in Syed A. Rahim and John Middleton (eds.), Perspectives in communication policy and planning. Communication Monographs No. 3. East-West Center, East-West Communication Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii. 363 pages
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